(July 23, 2022 at 1:40 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If the normative goal is utility, and there is no loss of utility - then there's no problem regardless of and even if destruction was done.
Destroy away, am I right, destruction is not what we concern ourselves with. I do think this explains alot of humans worst environmental behaviors. They're destructive..and even self injurious, but utilitarian.
Yes, that seems to be the case. Without anthropomorphizing the Earth, we apply less value to the destructive change of state than we do to constructive ones that result-- nice car, bigger house, and so on. Good luck trying to tell people that "Mother Earth is falling deathly ill," though.
